@jwirth4702: "Does anyone have experiance in making dog food with deer scraps.
 I have heard of a local guy who boils the scraps from his deer and grinds the
cooked meat into portions for the family dog.
Im wondering if its a good thing to do? Good for the pets? Any recipes??
Jay Wirth
Renaissance Ink
1613 Rita Rd
Vestal, NY 13850
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+1-225-647-5324"
    @shoot4ever: "<quote>
I have done a lot of that with two different dogs. I would use the neck and
ribs and just cut it into small pieces. My husky loved it raw and never
seemed to affect him. My Doberman was not as fond of it raw so I would boil
it. Mixed it in with dry dog food. I would not bother grinding it because
cut to the size for a grinder should be fine for the dogs.
John"
    @kl7jw: "JWirth4702 <email_address> wrote in
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No special recipe, but we boil the scraps and freeze them in containers
(plastic cottage cheese or margerine containers), and feed them to the
dog.  Also usually freeze the large leg bones and toss one out for the
dog out every few days.  Our old Lab mix dog ate them from the time he
was a pup until we had to put him down at age 16 form arthritis and
blindness.  That old dog hated to come in the house and slept on the
porch rather than in the doghouse.  He never chased deer, but gave the
bobcats and coons what for all his life.  He got educated about
porcupines twice when he was less than a year old, and never got close to
one again.
John hart"
    @cstoyer: "<quote>
We would label our elk freezer bags E-Stk, E-Chunks, E-Hbgr, E-Dog. The
scraps not worth extracting meat for hamburger from would go in the
E-Dog bags.
Our Mutt would get very excited if you said "do you want some elk?"
Never cooked it.
Charles."
    @Unitedair2004: "My Lab just loves all the scraps, It seems nothing gets wasted when I am
butchering a deer. The one thing is that everything gets boiled before he
gets it. I even cut up the bones to easy to handle sizes for him.
Searcher1
news:<email_address>
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    @handywired: "I think it's better for them raw, FWIW...
I give my dogs the heart and liver from the deer I kill (don't get mad at me! I
HATE liver and e<url> heart...) and I must admit I boil them.  This does make
a VERY rich broth, mainly from the liver, that they also love.  I just leave
the cook pot on the porch in the cold and stretch it out over a week or so.
Then they get all the bones too.  However, I pay to have my deer processed so I
get steaks and burger and bones but that's it...
-jeff"
    @SaPeIsMa: "news:<email_address>
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Most definitely NOT a good practice.
Deer can have all kinds of little critters in their bodies that can be
harmfull to those that eat them raw, dogs included.
Also remember that dogs, just like humans, that have been raised on
primarily processed food for generations have also had some of their ability
to process a raw diet eroded.
Why take the risk that you or your dog pick up some little criiters that are
unfriendly, just for a lack of cooking."
    @handywired: "<quote>
SaPeIsMa <email_address>:
Not according to my vet!  When I asked him, he said raw is better, both meat
and bones, for dogs.
-jeff"
    @n5odj: "<email_address> writes:
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Perhaps, but nothing a little time in the freezer won't fix.
I just have to call BS on this one.     Please see:  <url>
Too long to cut & paste, but it's a good explanation.
My dog is as healthy as can be & is on a rawfed diet.  No, it's not just meat &
not just bones.  Ideally, it duplicates wild prey, including meat, organs,
bones, you name it.
Robert
Semper Fi"
    @campascual: "news:<email_address>
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ability
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I think raw meat and bones are generally good for dogs.  In spite of recent
development/breeding/evolution, canines did evolve as carnivores over
millions of years.  However, with wild game it is important to know that
certain organs (like the liver and lungs especially) can harbor parasites
that can affect canines.  For example, echinoccus (hydatid) can transmit
from wild herbivores to dogs to humans.  This may or may not be a disease
present in your area, but as a general precaution, most people advise to
either avoid feeding the organs (liver, brain, lungs, kidney, guts) or at
least cooking thoroughly.
meat &"
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